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Unstoppable Hype Machine Winter 2014 #2 – Seitokai Yakuindomo *
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Tag Archives: Anime
Lists Are Fun to Make: Favorite Episodes of 2013 By Title
I find anime episode titles lined up to be aesthetically pleasing. There’s an art to picking a good title that really speaks to the content of the episode. Here I tired to keep things simple, and limited myself to one episode per show to keep Gatchaman Crowds and the non-racist parts of Space Brothers from dominating the chart and keeping some other interesting ones out.
10. Change the World (Samurai Flamenco)
9. Autumn of Arts, Appetite, and Attack (GJ-bu)
8. Soccer… Soccer? (Outbreak Company)
7. Because It’s Fun (Yuyushiki)
6. Everyone has Close Calls. Learn from Them and Keep the Workplace Healthy. (Servant x Service)
5. Shocking No Breathing (Free)
4. Muromi-san and the Ryuuguuju (Namiuchigiwa no Muromi-san)
3. Qualifications of a Hero (Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure)
2. Excitement of My Youth (Space Brothers)
1. Crowds (Gatchaman Crowds)
Fun With Numbers: The February 2014 Amazon Experiment (Initial Numbers)
I present few results here; I’m mainly just laying the groundwork for something I hope will bear fruit at the end of the titular month.
As you may know, I’m very interested in the intricacies of the market for Region 1 anime releases, and I’ve looked at the problem from a few different angles. There are sources for this sort of thing, but I’d rather start building a cache of available numbers than just rely on word from ANNCast, likely reliable though it is, that certain series did “well” or “break-even”. This post is the raw beginnings of an approach on this problem, though at this phase of things I’m mainly interested in finding indicators that seem accurate.
Unstoppable Hype Machine Winter 2014 #3 – Robot Girls Z
This one is actually one that Animetics has a slight history with; specifically, we subtitled Episode 0! Linky Dinky~. It currently has 11,000 Downloads on Nyaa.eu, and while we will not be subbing the series itself we are discussing it in this chapter of Unstoppable Hype Machine!
Unstoppable Hype Machine Winter 2014 #4 – Hamatora
Unstoppable Hype Machine Winter 2014 #5 – Witchcraft Works
Welcome to Unstoppable Hype Machine, a podcast where Drew and Sam discuss what shows they are looking forward to in the next season! There will be five in the first season of USHM with one going up per day! First up on the discussion plate is Witchcraft Works, a new comedy directed by Tsutomu Mizushima!
Lists Are Fun to Make: Questions I’d Like to Attack in 2014
If you read this blog on a regular basis, you’re probably aware that one of the things I enjoy doing is going through various available numbers (anime sales, manga sales, myanimelist rankings, and the like) related to the anime and manga industries and trying to use them to gain insights into particular trends in both the industry and the fanbases it serves. It’s not easy work, nor is it flawless. There are a bunch of questions that very quickly became difficult to address in the short term (involving either no apparent path to the answer or a very long, winding path to the answer) and got shelved. Here’s a peek into the short-term reject file of issues/technical concerns still bugging me that I’d love to be able to resolve and analyze now that I’m ditching my weekly by-episode anime blogging.
Fall 2013 Anime I Dropped: What, When, and Why
To me, anime is a hobby whose primary purpose is trading free time to for entertainment. So I’m always ready to drop shows that aren’t providing a fair return on that 20 minutes a week, in order to use the time on discovering classics, rediscovering the contents of my hardcopy disk collection, or just doing actual work. These are the Fall 2013 shows that prompted that decision.
Fun With Numbers: Correlation Coefficients for Manga Sales Boosts and the Kickstarter Analogy
Let’s say, for the sake of argument, you’re a fan of Attack on Titan. You watched the entire show as it aired and can’t wait for more of it. What if, tomorrow, a Kickstarter went up for a 12-episode second season of the show. How much, without knowing the reward tiers, would you give? $1? $10? $20? $50? $100 (like the U.S. disks for season 1 as a whole will likely cost)?
I’d imagine that, depending on just how much they enjoyed AoT, most people would answer with a number within their price range. Given the popularity of the show, such a project would be a fairly safe bet to break the current record for animation projects on the site (currently Bee and Puppycat’s $872,133).
But let’s make a key change to this project. Let’s suppose that, instead of a give-what-you-can model of pricing, this hypothetical Kickstarter only allowed pledges at or above $500 level. Even for a series with a lot of enthusiastic fans, I’m willing to bet that turns some of them off. Even if that $500 level includes a meet-and-greet with the anime’s entire cast and signed copy of volume 1 of the manga, that’s just more than what many people are willing (or able) to pay. And that is the crux of the matter when it comes to discussing who buys anime.
First Reactions: Arpeggio of Blue Steel 12 (End) and Quickie Scores (9/10)
Before this episode I was perfectly willing to stick the show with an 8 or a 9 for an effective variation of comedy and combat that had a first gear that it wasn’t always in. Thankfully, this was one of those episodes that took the decision well and fully out of my hands. While the structure of the climax smacked very heavily of an anime-original story, the spectacle dial was cranked up to the highest level and we ended up with action scene after action scene that probably would have broken the show’s budget had it been a non-3D anime.*
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